Those Who Can’t Lead Preach

And those who can’t lead also go for low-hanging fruit and crap on sad-sack towns like Buffalo:

“There’s an awful lot of free space up in Buffalo, New York, if you want to go there,” Hizzoner told a housing conference on Wednesday. “I don’t think you do.”

Bloomberg’s poke in Buffalo’s eye prompted a furious reaction from Byron Brown, the Democratic mayor of that cold but proud metropolis.

“When I heard those comments I was p—-ed,” Brown said. “It was a cheap shot. And thinking about those comments, listening to them two hours later, I’m still p—-ed off.”

Defining Heinousness And Egregiousness Upward/No Hyperbole Left Behind

No doubt, this was a terrible thing for budding sociopaths to do:

The three suspects range in age from 11 to 13.

And while some of their fellow students inside Dreyfus Intermediate School were getting after-school help with their studies yesterday afternoon, the trio and two accomplices allegedly robbed a delivery man of pizza pies and soda in the school parking lot.

Teachers had ordered the snacks for kids studying after school.

But the problem with calling it both heinous and egregious is that it leaves little room for that which is really both heinous and egregious:

“This is a heinous and egregious act and this type of act is commonplace, and the students behave this way because they know there’s little or no consequences for their actions,” said a source at the Stapleton school.

Truer Words Never Spoken

“In the end, anything is a urinal when you want it to be.”

Since You’re Talking About Cash-Strapped Municipalities Saving Money . . .

You could raise $3.4 million year by charging groups like the NYC Marathon for overtime or you could save $75 million a year by cutting back on pot arrests:

New York spends $75 million a year to lock up people caught with marijuana, a new study says, even though it’s not technically a crime.

The report by the Drug Policy Alliance says the NYPD spends that much on 50,000 annual pot arrests, in which 86% of those arrested are black or Latino.

Of course that might require a reconfiguration of the mayor’s “progressive goals,” but with his lowest approval ratings in eight years, there’s room to reconfigure.

It Feels Like Something I Saw On Web Soup; It Hurts

Kickball-snark experts at the Brooklyn Paper sound the alarm about subpar renovations at Brooklyn’s McCarren Park Kickball Fields:

Just try to imagine a summer without Brooklyn Kickball. It’s a nightmare, right?

Location Scout: McCarren Park.